Practitioner sign-on letter
Tax professionals: put your name on the record
Congress hears from industry money every day. It rarely hears from the people who actually prepare digital asset returns. This letter changes that.
Why a practitioner letter
Every lobbying shop in Washington can buy an ad campaign. What no one can buy is the professional judgment of the practitioners who sit across the table from taxpayers: the CPAs reconciling broker forms against incomplete records, the enrolled agents walking clients through years of unreported transactions, the attorneys explaining to a fraud victim why current law taxes the money that was stolen from them.
A letter signed by verified CPAs, enrolled agents, and tax attorneys who actually prepare digital asset returns is a signal industry money cannot fake. It tells the tax-writing committees that the case for reform comes from the filing room, not the trading floor.
Every signature below is checked against public licensing registries before it counts. That is the point: a smaller number that is real beats a bigger number that is not.
The letter
To the Chairs and Ranking Members of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance:
We are certified public accountants, enrolled agents, and tax attorneys who prepare and review digital asset tax returns. We write from direct professional experience with the taxpayers behind the statistics.
First, we urge passage of H.R. 9500, the Tax Relief for Fraud Victims Act. Under current law, clients who lose their savings to investment fraud generally cannot deduct the theft, and those manipulated into withdrawing retirement funds owe income tax — and often early withdrawal penalties — on money a criminal took. Taxing stolen money is not sound policy, and Congress can correct it.
Second, we urge Congress to direct the IRS to establish a voluntary disclosure program for digital assets, with a defined window and a standardized, proportionate penalty framework. The offshore voluntary disclosure programs brought more than 56,000 taxpayers back into the system and recovered over $11 billion. Our clients ask us for a comparable path back to compliance; today we cannot describe one with confidence.
We ask you to advance both measures. Our names appear below because we know, first-hand, that current law is failing the taxpayers it should serve.
Respectfully,
The undersigned tax professionals
Where signers practice
Verified signers by the state where they practice. Breadth across districts is what makes a sign-on letter matter to a tax-writing committee.
Who has signed
Verified signers who chose to be listed publicly. Newest first.
Add your name
Open to CPAs, enrolled agents, tax attorneys, and other credentialed tax professionals. License details are used only to verify your credential and are never published.
How verification works
Every signer is checked against public registries before counting toward the public tally: the IRS Return Preparer Office directory for enrolled agents, NASBA’s CPAverify for CPAs, and state bar rolls for attorneys.
Only verified signers are counted. Signatures we cannot verify are not published, not tallied, and not delivered with the letter. That standard is what makes this document worth a committee’s attention.
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